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1500 new cars a day in Beijing
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyContinuing the pollution in China thread, here’s a short opinion piece by Stephen Cass in Technology Review which claims that 1500 new cars are added to the streets of Beijing each day (the excellent photo from that article is below). I don’t know where he got that number, but I’m going to assume that he’s […]
Stupid ads solving non-existent problems and other bad sales pitches
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyI’ve been cogitating recently on some of the marketing campaigns out there that seem almost designed to not sell the product or otherwise turn off customers. What the **** were they thinking? The creepy plastic faced Burger King ad campaign has won awards in the ad industry, but resulted in a declining market share for […]
How I survived China
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyGreat article sent by a friend in DC on the health hazards of living in China. A few things that stuck out: 1 – Micro-particulate pollution – in terms of the human cost, this is more concerning than CO2: Another way to know this is via a clandestine air-quality station that the U.S. Embassy has […]
What must the Chinese think of Halloween (to say nothing of Mardi Gras)?
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyWell, finally recovered from Halloween. Kids had a great time, as did the adults. And yes, ALL of the store-bought costumes were Made in China. How odd it must be to mass produce accoutrement for another country’s holidays. What would an American printing company think if it were asked to print ghost money or bake […]
More thoughts on coal
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyHere’s an interesting article from my home town paper, The Roanoke Times, on the new carbon capture technology being tested at a power plant in West (By God) Virginia. The technology is interesting to me, especially since I once considered becoming a geologist, but this is the part of the article I found most interesting: […]
Meet the PassageMaker Sales Team!
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyMy biggest project this year is the development of an international team of sales representatives to promote PassageMaker. While the roster is not complete by any stretch, we have a good start, with representatives in Brazil, Europe, Mexico and the USA. We will be adding more photos and bios shortly, and I will post updates […]
Boy, were the trade shows REALLY different this October
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyI’ve written about this before. Mike Bellamy asked me to avoid politics in this blog. Which is mostly fine, because generally I am sick of politics. But there are times when it is really, really, really, reeeeaaaaally hard, and this is one of those times. Why? Well, I’ve been going through the follow-ups from the […]
Superfusion: How China and America Became One Economy
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyVery interesting podcast sent by Dan Welygan, formerly a project manager for PassageMaker, and now our sales rep covering Washington and Oregon. I was interested to hear the author’s view of Tiananmen, and it is largely spot on. His story on KFC ignores that they pioneered this Asian-flavored version of an American also-ran for 20+ […]
China, US to boost quality control
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyJulien Roger, Managing Director of our sister company, China Quality Focus, sent me this short article on a declaration of China’s commitment to improving quality control. Now the cynic in me would like to make a snarky comment on the pointlessness of such government pronouncements right about now, but I won’t for two reasons: Many […]
The Law of Conservation of Filth
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyThe Law of Conservation of Filth: In order for something to get clean, something else must get dirty. Corollary to the Law of Conservation of Filth: It is possible for everything to get dirty and nothing to get clean. This is one of Murphy’s Laws. I used it in my answer when asked recently about […]